"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato

Sunday, August 26, 2012

New York Time's Editor Jill Abramson Can't Handle The Truth

No doubt she'll be more careful to hire more liars who will only tell her what she wants to believe.

The executive editor of the New York Times is disputing an accusation
of liberal bias made by her very own public editor, Arthur Brisbane.

In his final column
for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers "share a kind of
political and cultural progressivism" that "virtually bleeds through
the fabric of The Times." Brisbane even argued that Times reporters
approached some liberal issues, like gay marriage and the Occupy
movement, "more like causes than news subjects."

But Times executive editor Jill Abramson says she disagrees with Brisbane's "sweeping conclusions."

"In our newsroom we are always conscious that the way we view an
issue in New York is not necessarily the way it is viewed in the rest of
the country or world. I disagree with Mr. Brisbane's sweeping
conclusions," Abramson told POLITICO Saturday night.

"I agree with another past public editor, Dan Okrent, and my
predecessor as executive editor, Bill Keller, that in covering some
social and cultural issues, the Times sometimes reflects its urban and
cosmopolitan base," she continued. "But I also often quote, including in
talks with Mr. Brisbane, another executive editor, Abe Rosenthal, who
wanted to be remembered for keeping 'the paper straight.' That's
essential."

About Me

I was born in Tombstone, Arizona, but moved to California in 1959 when labor strikes at the copper mines devastated the Arizona economy. I've been moving north ever since. Pullman is as far north as I care to live and I'm looking toward reversing the drift.